Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
9.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
8890
Points per Word
0.000225
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
Drug Abuse and Society
Description
This book explores the problem of teenagers' and pain sufferers' easy accessibility to prescription painkillers that often leads to addiction, examining OxyContin's transition from a pain reliever for cancer patients to the cause of overdose by abusers.